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Chapter 39 - Acute Management of Sepsis in Pregnancy

from Section 4 - Maternal Medicine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2021

By
Lucy Maudlin  and
Francoise H. Harlow
Edited by
Tahir Mahmood ,
Charles Savona Ventura ,
Ioannis Messinis  and
Sambit Mukhopadhyay
Tahir Mahmood
Affiliation:
Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy
Charles Savona Ventura
Affiliation:
University of Malta, Malta
Ioannis Messinis
Affiliation:
University of Thessaly, Greece
Sambit Mukhopadhyay
Affiliation:
Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital, UK
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Summary

Sepsis is the body’s life-threatening response to severe infection. Classification of sepsis is currently based on mortality and amount of organ dysfunction as defined by the Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3) [1]. The World Health Organization (WHO) has added to these to incorporate the definition of maternal sepsis [2] as described in Table 39.1.

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The EBCOG Postgraduate Textbook of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Obstetrics & Maternal-Fetal Medicine
 , pp. 329 - 336
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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